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WITH RHETORIC YOU CAN'T HIDE THE SUN
BIDEN'S PACIFIST SPEECH TO THE UN IS BASED ON WAR
23 Sep 2021 , 4:04 pm .
US President Joe Biden in his first participation in the UN General Assembly (Photo: AFP)
This Tuesday, September 21, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, delivered his speech at the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), a presentation that stands out because, in addition to being the first of the Democratic president, he was marked by falsehoods and contradictions.
Why was Biden's first speech so eye-catching? To answer this question, it is enough to take a look at the main media aligned with the West.
"'We are not looking for a New Cold War': Joe Biden announces at the UN the beginning of the era of diplomacy" and "Biden assures that he seeks to unify the international community in his speech to the UN" were some of the titles that they took over the global press.
Since last year, exactly when the presidential campaign began, a way has been sought to project Biden as a savior, but above all an attempt has been made to contrast his "renewed" figure with that of Donald Trump, on whom a warmongering image allegedly fell. .
It is worth noting that, whether it is Democrats or Republicans, the image of the United States as an empire is sustained precisely by the war. Therefore, affirming that it seeks to impose another logic different from that is a fallacy because it would be denying the principle that sustains it.
KEYS TO BIDEN'S SPEECH
The pandemic. The current president of the United States began his speech referring to the global pandemic due to covid and the need to create a common front to stop its advance. Clearly this marks a distance from its predecessor. It is also a way of assuming leadership, with your country at the head, of a symbolic fight against an evil. A fairly cinematic projection of imperialism.
Climate change. Biden referred to global catastrophes as effects of climate change and again called for everyone to unite to stop it. Another element for which Trump was questioned.
Human rights. The US president said the world was at a turning point in history. "We are going to fight for a common future or we are going to endanger future generations," he said, referring to the principles that led to the creation of the UN. It is ironic that he calls for the defense of human rights given his actions on different war fronts, especially in recent years.
"A more peaceful world for all". Biden said that they ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan while "initiating a new era of diplomacy." The truth is that the resounding withdrawal of the Central Asian country corresponds more to an undeniable defeat than a thoughtful decision.
Ironically, he said that "we will stop the attempts of the strong to dominate the poor or the smallest (...) We do not want a New Cold War or a new division in the world. The United States is willing to work with any country to seek peaceful solutions. ". This, without a doubt, contradicts the imperial logic shown so far.
REALITY
Anyone who moderately follows US foreign policy is aware that Joe Biden's speech does not correspond to reality and points more to a cosmetic, narrative change, to try to re-float a leadership lost after the promotion of other actors on the geopolitical scene. Is the United States really going to change its warlike dynamic for diplomacy? His latest performances say otherwise.
A few days ago, the US military carried out an airstrike in Syria against a target that the US Central Command said was a "senior al Qaeda leader," notes Tasnim News .
"US forces today carried out a kinetic counter-terrorism attack near Idlib, Syria, against a senior al Qaeda leader. Early indications are that we hit the individual we were targeting, and there are no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the attack. attack ", said Monday the spokesman of the Pentagon, John Kirby, picks up the Iranian means of the agency Sputnik.
This bombing occurs just one day before Joe Biden delivered his pacifist speech.
"We have to create a collective future based on the United Nations. End war and destruction. We have to unite. For the first time in 20 years the United States is not at war," he said at the UN.
This sudden change in posture is hard to believe, especially considering that the circuit of war is a cog with many pieces that cannot be moved lightly.
When it does not intervene directly, the United States outsources the war by supporting opposition or rebel groups that serve its interests. "In Syria he for a long time supported Al Nusra and other so-called moderate rebels during the war on terror in Syria, believing that they would topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad," notes Tasnim News .
It is also necessary to mention that US imperialism maintains an occupation force of 900 soldiers in eastern Syria, where it has appropriated several of the oil fields of that Middle Eastern country "whose products are exported to the east through Iraq for truck instead of west on existing gas lines, where the Syrian government could sell it. "
Occupying a territory, appropriating its resources and financing terrorism contradicts that of being willing to seek peaceful solutions, as well as stopping the attempts of the strong to dominate the poor or the smallest.
It is more than demonstrated that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was not due to a change in imperial policy. In fact, the withdrawal had not concluded when the US president said that the war on terror was not yet over and that "the threat from Al Qaeda had metastasized elsewhere, naming Syria as a theater of operations that would continue."
It should also be noted that the flight from Afghan territory was not exempt from what the US government describes as a regrettable "mistake": an air strike during the last days of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan killed 10 civilians, of which seven were children . The incident was condemned worldwide after it was revealed that the attack targeted a civilian vehicle and not a bomb-laden car driven by Daesh militants who were on their way to attack US forces.
More than 750 military bases in 80 countries, as well as strategically located aircraft carriers in all seas, with no intention of withdrawing them, is an indication that a change in US foreign policy is not near. The withdrawal from Afghanistan, when compared to this data, is a negligible move.
"In the UN speech, Biden urges the world to move from conflict to cooperation in order to deal with COVID. So why do we spend $ 738 billion on the military and $ 11 billion on the Control Center of Diseases? "Asks Medea Benjamin, a Codepink activist.
And it is that the unequal distribution of vaccines, as well as their hoarding by rich countries, is also another sign that Biden's speech is more propaganda than anything else. Narrative that, as we said before, points to the concealment of unavoidable realities.
Regarding the defense of human rights, images have recently circulated that cast doubt on their struggle to defend them. That troops from the US border patrol persecute and whip Haitian migrants who try to cross into the North American country is a sample of the immigration policy that is not different from that of the previous president, which by the way was quite questioned by the Democrats.
According to the Biden Administration plan - the Robinson Institute reports - it seeks to accelerate mass deportations in order to deactivate asylum options.
"During his election campaign, in an attempt to distance himself from Trump's immigration strategy, Joe Biden assured that he would end the moral and national shame that the mass detention of migrants and the separation of families implied. But the images of the Border Patrol have shown the electoral instrumentalization of this narrative, and the heavy hand with which all US administrations have approached the issue ", the institute reports.
Joe Biden's pacifist speech is not sustainable over time, and the facts show it. The crimes committed by imperialism leave an image that cannot be reversed, especially if there is no real intention to impose a logic other than the one shown so far.
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Coast to Coast Protests Erupt in the US Against Biden’s Deportation of Haitians
September 26, 2021
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From coast to coast, thousands of people in 25 US cities marched on September 23 to demand that President Biden live up to his campaign promises to end inhumane treatment of migrants, notably the mass deportation of Haitian refugees clustered under a bridge in South Texas, along with whippings and beatings from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents trying to stop all migrants across the US southern border.
Instead, they declared, Biden should institute policies he promised on the campaign trail: stopping deportations, reuniting families ICE raids split, closing detention centers—especially private for-profit ones—and stopping violence and inhumane treatment of detainees by ICE agents.
The pictures could have come directly out of coverage of Donald Trump’s horror show on the border: fascistic Border Patrol agents herding fearful Haitian families on the Texas border and shipping them off by the thousands for immediate deportation.
In order to carry out the attack on the Haitians, large numbers of extra Border Patrol agents were sent to the encampment of the Haitian immigrants who were rounded up and, as if Trump were still in power, sent back to their “home” country. Only this time Haiti is not even the home country for most of the deported immigrants. They lived for 10 or more years in Central and South American countries other than Haiti. Many had friends and relatives in Brooklyn, New York, for example, who were more than willing to house and shelter them. Brooklyn is home to the largest Haitian community anywhere in the world outside of Haiti.
Demonstrators across the country today insisted too that the Democratic majority in Congress should go the extra mile and solve the underlying immigration issue in the country by passing comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to legalization, for all migrants.
US border patrol personnel attack Haitian migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña of Mexico into Del Rio, Texas, on Sunday, Sep 19, 2021. Photo: Félix Márquez/AP
Activists say that the statements by the administration and by Vice President Kamala Harris that the horrific scenes of agents using whips on immigrants were “unacceptable” and “inappropriate” were not enough and that the administration and Democrats need to act to solve the problem. “How are you different than Trump?” asked Marisa Franco, executive director of Mijente, in a statement issued by the Latino civil rights group.
The Biden administration claims that it has always been committed to humane immigration policies but has faced roadblocks. The Supreme Court blocked Biden when he tried to bring thousands waiting in squalor on the Mexican side of the border into the country for processing. The Court upheld lower court rulings that the Trump policy of corralling them there was legal.
Federal judges have thrown up other roadblocks and only last Sunday the Senate parliamentarian committee said Biden’s plan for a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of immigrants could not be included in the reconciliation process to get it to become law.
The Republicans have blocked any legislative attempts at immigration reform and are hypocritically blasting Biden for “allowing uncontrolled immigration into the country,” as Missouri’s neo-fascist Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said this week. They would like nothing better than to see a Democratic administration fail to solve the immigration problem. Immigration and chaos surrounding the withdrawal from Afghanistan are their two best talking points, considering that the president’s Build Back Better Agenda is massively popular with Americans.
None of this is stopping immigrant rights advocates from pointing out correctly, however, that it is the responsibility of the Biden administration to act on its own promises.
United We Dream, Defund Hate, and We Are Home coalitions organized the “Communities Not Cages” day of action campaign on September 23. Backers included the Service Employees, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the United Farm Workers, and the American Friends Service Committee.
The Washington DC rally drew several hundred people to Lafayette Square across from the White House. Rallies, silent vigils outside ICE offices, and other events drew tens of thousands more, combined, nationwide.
Migrants’ backers rallied outside the chapel at Loyola University on Chicago’s North Side, held a press conference/rally at Foley Square in Manhattan, gathered for two rallies—one outside an ICE office—in Atlanta, and added a rally outside the federal building in Los Angeles and a silent vigil outside ICE’s Hutto Detention Center in Taylor, Texas.
Participants festooned the rallies with signs demanding legalization and an end to deportations. “Close The Camps,” DC rally signs read. “We Are Essential” others stated, below a picture of a migrant farm worker. “Free Them All,” read a third.
“Down, down, down with deportation! Up, up, up with liberation!” was one of the repeated chants from the crowds in DC.
Speakers demanded Biden end the racist, anti-Black anti-migrant detention and expulsion policies he inherited from his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, and before him, Democrat Barack Obama. Biden was Obama’s VP.
US border patrol personnel attack Haitian migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña of Mexico into Del Rio, Texas, on Sunday, Sep 19, 2021. Photo: Félix Márquez/AP
Activists also denounced ICE and Border Patrol tactics, including horrifying pictures of mounted agents literally whipping people, all of them Black and mostly Haitian, who were trying to enter the US.
ICE, speakers said, should be abolished. Families that its raids inside the US split should be reunited, with detainees returning to their communities, pending formal hearings on their requests to stay here.
Daniel Foote, Biden’s special envoy to Haiti, resigned in protest over the inhumane treatment of Haitian immigrants. Photo: YouTube screen capture
And to add insult to such injuries, United We Dream’s Grace Martínez Rojas, emceeing the DC event, announced the latest news: Biden wants to ship some rounded-up migrants to the detention center at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuban territory occupied by the US. Under GOP congressional pressure, that center has remained open for 20 years to detain alleged al-Qaeda supporters following the 9/11 attacks.
“We are here to send a clear message to the Biden administration and the Democrats that we need more than words,” she declared. “ICE and the Border Patrol are rooted in white supremacy” in both agents’ views and agency tactics.
Speakers also told stories of inhumane treatment in the detention centers inside the U.S. and migrant camps along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Krome Detention Center in Florida was a particular target. But one speaker pointed out the more migrants whom private centers jail, the more money they make.
In a tape, in Spanish, Florida resident Hector Granado, detained in Krome since ICE agents arrested him as he left for work last October 20, said “part of ICE’s operation is isolation” from families and communities.
A migrant who identified himself only as Daniel, from the Haitian Bridge Alliance, told the DC crowd that he had been in and out of five centers in Southern California. “The US has specifically targeted Black immigrants,” he said.
Those migrants “are fleeing to seek freedom, yet what do we find in the land of freedom? Detention. Medical neglect. Discrimination. A system that’s inherently abusive and unfair.” Female detainees “suffered gynecological exams without their consent.”
But it’s not just Krome or the center he cited, in Irwin, California, that are problems, speakers said. It’s all the centers and the policy that drives them.
“Since taking office, the Biden administration has called for over $24 billion to fund ICE and CBP for fiscal year 2022 and continued to commit violent anti-Black attacks that were pillars of the Trump administration’s white nationalist agenda,” Defund Hate’s statement said.
“Following the horrific photos that surfaced of violence against Haitian migrants at the hands of Border Patrol agents, the Biden administration has carried out at least four additional mass expulsion flights of Haitian asylum seekers, with three more scheduled for later this afternoon.” Biden also appealed federal court rulings against the section of immigration law, Title 42, that justifies detentions and deportations.
Martínez Rojas also had a promise for Biden and Congress if they fail to act—a likely prospect for the immediate future, as comprehensive immigration reform has been ruled out of the package of “reconciliation” legislation now moving through Congress.
“We will not rest, we will not stop, until everybody is free,” she vowed.
Featured image: Migrants, mostly from Haiti, at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande, in Del Rio, Texas, on September 21, 2021. Photo: Julio Córtez/AP
(People’s World)
https://orinocotribune.com/coast-to-coa ... -haitians/
It must suck to feel it necessary to pretend that this administration is anything better than 'not Trump'. Good enough for many, I guess...
"Paging Doctor Fanon"
BIDEN'S PACIFIST SPEECH TO THE UN IS BASED ON WAR
23 Sep 2021 , 4:04 pm .
US President Joe Biden in his first participation in the UN General Assembly (Photo: AFP)
This Tuesday, September 21, the president of the United States, Joe Biden, delivered his speech at the 76th General Assembly of the United Nations (UN), a presentation that stands out because, in addition to being the first of the Democratic president, he was marked by falsehoods and contradictions.
Why was Biden's first speech so eye-catching? To answer this question, it is enough to take a look at the main media aligned with the West.
"'We are not looking for a New Cold War': Joe Biden announces at the UN the beginning of the era of diplomacy" and "Biden assures that he seeks to unify the international community in his speech to the UN" were some of the titles that they took over the global press.
Since last year, exactly when the presidential campaign began, a way has been sought to project Biden as a savior, but above all an attempt has been made to contrast his "renewed" figure with that of Donald Trump, on whom a warmongering image allegedly fell. .
It is worth noting that, whether it is Democrats or Republicans, the image of the United States as an empire is sustained precisely by the war. Therefore, affirming that it seeks to impose another logic different from that is a fallacy because it would be denying the principle that sustains it.
KEYS TO BIDEN'S SPEECH
The pandemic. The current president of the United States began his speech referring to the global pandemic due to covid and the need to create a common front to stop its advance. Clearly this marks a distance from its predecessor. It is also a way of assuming leadership, with your country at the head, of a symbolic fight against an evil. A fairly cinematic projection of imperialism.
Climate change. Biden referred to global catastrophes as effects of climate change and again called for everyone to unite to stop it. Another element for which Trump was questioned.
Human rights. The US president said the world was at a turning point in history. "We are going to fight for a common future or we are going to endanger future generations," he said, referring to the principles that led to the creation of the UN. It is ironic that he calls for the defense of human rights given his actions on different war fronts, especially in recent years.
"A more peaceful world for all". Biden said that they ended 20 years of conflict in Afghanistan while "initiating a new era of diplomacy." The truth is that the resounding withdrawal of the Central Asian country corresponds more to an undeniable defeat than a thoughtful decision.
Ironically, he said that "we will stop the attempts of the strong to dominate the poor or the smallest (...) We do not want a New Cold War or a new division in the world. The United States is willing to work with any country to seek peaceful solutions. ". This, without a doubt, contradicts the imperial logic shown so far.
REALITY
Anyone who moderately follows US foreign policy is aware that Joe Biden's speech does not correspond to reality and points more to a cosmetic, narrative change, to try to re-float a leadership lost after the promotion of other actors on the geopolitical scene. Is the United States really going to change its warlike dynamic for diplomacy? His latest performances say otherwise.
A few days ago, the US military carried out an airstrike in Syria against a target that the US Central Command said was a "senior al Qaeda leader," notes Tasnim News .
"US forces today carried out a kinetic counter-terrorism attack near Idlib, Syria, against a senior al Qaeda leader. Early indications are that we hit the individual we were targeting, and there are no indications of civilian casualties as a result of the attack. attack ", said Monday the spokesman of the Pentagon, John Kirby, picks up the Iranian means of the agency Sputnik.
This bombing occurs just one day before Joe Biden delivered his pacifist speech.
"We have to create a collective future based on the United Nations. End war and destruction. We have to unite. For the first time in 20 years the United States is not at war," he said at the UN.
This sudden change in posture is hard to believe, especially considering that the circuit of war is a cog with many pieces that cannot be moved lightly.
When it does not intervene directly, the United States outsources the war by supporting opposition or rebel groups that serve its interests. "In Syria he for a long time supported Al Nusra and other so-called moderate rebels during the war on terror in Syria, believing that they would topple the government of Syrian President Bashar al Assad," notes Tasnim News .
It is also necessary to mention that US imperialism maintains an occupation force of 900 soldiers in eastern Syria, where it has appropriated several of the oil fields of that Middle Eastern country "whose products are exported to the east through Iraq for truck instead of west on existing gas lines, where the Syrian government could sell it. "
Occupying a territory, appropriating its resources and financing terrorism contradicts that of being willing to seek peaceful solutions, as well as stopping the attempts of the strong to dominate the poor or the smallest.
It is more than demonstrated that the withdrawal from Afghanistan was not due to a change in imperial policy. In fact, the withdrawal had not concluded when the US president said that the war on terror was not yet over and that "the threat from Al Qaeda had metastasized elsewhere, naming Syria as a theater of operations that would continue."
It should also be noted that the flight from Afghan territory was not exempt from what the US government describes as a regrettable "mistake": an air strike during the last days of the US withdrawal from Afghanistan killed 10 civilians, of which seven were children . The incident was condemned worldwide after it was revealed that the attack targeted a civilian vehicle and not a bomb-laden car driven by Daesh militants who were on their way to attack US forces.
More than 750 military bases in 80 countries, as well as strategically located aircraft carriers in all seas, with no intention of withdrawing them, is an indication that a change in US foreign policy is not near. The withdrawal from Afghanistan, when compared to this data, is a negligible move.
"In the UN speech, Biden urges the world to move from conflict to cooperation in order to deal with COVID. So why do we spend $ 738 billion on the military and $ 11 billion on the Control Center of Diseases? "Asks Medea Benjamin, a Codepink activist.
And it is that the unequal distribution of vaccines, as well as their hoarding by rich countries, is also another sign that Biden's speech is more propaganda than anything else. Narrative that, as we said before, points to the concealment of unavoidable realities.
Regarding the defense of human rights, images have recently circulated that cast doubt on their struggle to defend them. That troops from the US border patrol persecute and whip Haitian migrants who try to cross into the North American country is a sample of the immigration policy that is not different from that of the previous president, which by the way was quite questioned by the Democrats.
According to the Biden Administration plan - the Robinson Institute reports - it seeks to accelerate mass deportations in order to deactivate asylum options.
"During his election campaign, in an attempt to distance himself from Trump's immigration strategy, Joe Biden assured that he would end the moral and national shame that the mass detention of migrants and the separation of families implied. But the images of the Border Patrol have shown the electoral instrumentalization of this narrative, and the heavy hand with which all US administrations have approached the issue ", the institute reports.
Joe Biden's pacifist speech is not sustainable over time, and the facts show it. The crimes committed by imperialism leave an image that cannot be reversed, especially if there is no real intention to impose a logic other than the one shown so far.
https://misionverdad.com/globalistan/el ... -la-guerra
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Coast to Coast Protests Erupt in the US Against Biden’s Deportation of Haitians
September 26, 2021
scorinoco
From coast to coast, thousands of people in 25 US cities marched on September 23 to demand that President Biden live up to his campaign promises to end inhumane treatment of migrants, notably the mass deportation of Haitian refugees clustered under a bridge in South Texas, along with whippings and beatings from Immigration and Customs Enforcement (ICE) agents trying to stop all migrants across the US southern border.
Instead, they declared, Biden should institute policies he promised on the campaign trail: stopping deportations, reuniting families ICE raids split, closing detention centers—especially private for-profit ones—and stopping violence and inhumane treatment of detainees by ICE agents.
The pictures could have come directly out of coverage of Donald Trump’s horror show on the border: fascistic Border Patrol agents herding fearful Haitian families on the Texas border and shipping them off by the thousands for immediate deportation.
In order to carry out the attack on the Haitians, large numbers of extra Border Patrol agents were sent to the encampment of the Haitian immigrants who were rounded up and, as if Trump were still in power, sent back to their “home” country. Only this time Haiti is not even the home country for most of the deported immigrants. They lived for 10 or more years in Central and South American countries other than Haiti. Many had friends and relatives in Brooklyn, New York, for example, who were more than willing to house and shelter them. Brooklyn is home to the largest Haitian community anywhere in the world outside of Haiti.
Demonstrators across the country today insisted too that the Democratic majority in Congress should go the extra mile and solve the underlying immigration issue in the country by passing comprehensive immigration reform, including a path to legalization, for all migrants.
US border patrol personnel attack Haitian migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña of Mexico into Del Rio, Texas, on Sunday, Sep 19, 2021. Photo: Félix Márquez/AP
Activists say that the statements by the administration and by Vice President Kamala Harris that the horrific scenes of agents using whips on immigrants were “unacceptable” and “inappropriate” were not enough and that the administration and Democrats need to act to solve the problem. “How are you different than Trump?” asked Marisa Franco, executive director of Mijente, in a statement issued by the Latino civil rights group.
The Biden administration claims that it has always been committed to humane immigration policies but has faced roadblocks. The Supreme Court blocked Biden when he tried to bring thousands waiting in squalor on the Mexican side of the border into the country for processing. The Court upheld lower court rulings that the Trump policy of corralling them there was legal.
Federal judges have thrown up other roadblocks and only last Sunday the Senate parliamentarian committee said Biden’s plan for a pathway to citizenship for hundreds of thousands of immigrants could not be included in the reconciliation process to get it to become law.
The Republicans have blocked any legislative attempts at immigration reform and are hypocritically blasting Biden for “allowing uncontrolled immigration into the country,” as Missouri’s neo-fascist Republican Sen. Josh Hawley said this week. They would like nothing better than to see a Democratic administration fail to solve the immigration problem. Immigration and chaos surrounding the withdrawal from Afghanistan are their two best talking points, considering that the president’s Build Back Better Agenda is massively popular with Americans.
None of this is stopping immigrant rights advocates from pointing out correctly, however, that it is the responsibility of the Biden administration to act on its own promises.
United We Dream, Defund Hate, and We Are Home coalitions organized the “Communities Not Cages” day of action campaign on September 23. Backers included the Service Employees, the National Domestic Workers Alliance, the United Farm Workers, and the American Friends Service Committee.
The Washington DC rally drew several hundred people to Lafayette Square across from the White House. Rallies, silent vigils outside ICE offices, and other events drew tens of thousands more, combined, nationwide.
Migrants’ backers rallied outside the chapel at Loyola University on Chicago’s North Side, held a press conference/rally at Foley Square in Manhattan, gathered for two rallies—one outside an ICE office—in Atlanta, and added a rally outside the federal building in Los Angeles and a silent vigil outside ICE’s Hutto Detention Center in Taylor, Texas.
Participants festooned the rallies with signs demanding legalization and an end to deportations. “Close The Camps,” DC rally signs read. “We Are Essential” others stated, below a picture of a migrant farm worker. “Free Them All,” read a third.
“Down, down, down with deportation! Up, up, up with liberation!” was one of the repeated chants from the crowds in DC.
Speakers demanded Biden end the racist, anti-Black anti-migrant detention and expulsion policies he inherited from his predecessor, Republican Donald Trump, and before him, Democrat Barack Obama. Biden was Obama’s VP.
US border patrol personnel attack Haitian migrants as they cross the Rio Grande from Ciudad Acuña of Mexico into Del Rio, Texas, on Sunday, Sep 19, 2021. Photo: Félix Márquez/AP
Activists also denounced ICE and Border Patrol tactics, including horrifying pictures of mounted agents literally whipping people, all of them Black and mostly Haitian, who were trying to enter the US.
ICE, speakers said, should be abolished. Families that its raids inside the US split should be reunited, with detainees returning to their communities, pending formal hearings on their requests to stay here.
Daniel Foote, Biden’s special envoy to Haiti, resigned in protest over the inhumane treatment of Haitian immigrants. Photo: YouTube screen capture
And to add insult to such injuries, United We Dream’s Grace Martínez Rojas, emceeing the DC event, announced the latest news: Biden wants to ship some rounded-up migrants to the detention center at the US naval base in Guantánamo Bay, Cuban territory occupied by the US. Under GOP congressional pressure, that center has remained open for 20 years to detain alleged al-Qaeda supporters following the 9/11 attacks.
“We are here to send a clear message to the Biden administration and the Democrats that we need more than words,” she declared. “ICE and the Border Patrol are rooted in white supremacy” in both agents’ views and agency tactics.
Speakers also told stories of inhumane treatment in the detention centers inside the U.S. and migrant camps along the U.S.-Mexico border. The Krome Detention Center in Florida was a particular target. But one speaker pointed out the more migrants whom private centers jail, the more money they make.
In a tape, in Spanish, Florida resident Hector Granado, detained in Krome since ICE agents arrested him as he left for work last October 20, said “part of ICE’s operation is isolation” from families and communities.
A migrant who identified himself only as Daniel, from the Haitian Bridge Alliance, told the DC crowd that he had been in and out of five centers in Southern California. “The US has specifically targeted Black immigrants,” he said.
Those migrants “are fleeing to seek freedom, yet what do we find in the land of freedom? Detention. Medical neglect. Discrimination. A system that’s inherently abusive and unfair.” Female detainees “suffered gynecological exams without their consent.”
But it’s not just Krome or the center he cited, in Irwin, California, that are problems, speakers said. It’s all the centers and the policy that drives them.
“Since taking office, the Biden administration has called for over $24 billion to fund ICE and CBP for fiscal year 2022 and continued to commit violent anti-Black attacks that were pillars of the Trump administration’s white nationalist agenda,” Defund Hate’s statement said.
“Following the horrific photos that surfaced of violence against Haitian migrants at the hands of Border Patrol agents, the Biden administration has carried out at least four additional mass expulsion flights of Haitian asylum seekers, with three more scheduled for later this afternoon.” Biden also appealed federal court rulings against the section of immigration law, Title 42, that justifies detentions and deportations.
Martínez Rojas also had a promise for Biden and Congress if they fail to act—a likely prospect for the immediate future, as comprehensive immigration reform has been ruled out of the package of “reconciliation” legislation now moving through Congress.
“We will not rest, we will not stop, until everybody is free,” she vowed.
Featured image: Migrants, mostly from Haiti, at an encampment along the Del Rio International Bridge near the Rio Grande, in Del Rio, Texas, on September 21, 2021. Photo: Julio Córtez/AP
(People’s World)
https://orinocotribune.com/coast-to-coa ... -haitians/
It must suck to feel it necessary to pretend that this administration is anything better than 'not Trump'. Good enough for many, I guess...
"Paging Doctor Fanon"